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```Buster Seven Talk 14:24, 13 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

April 2012

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Hi, I've reverted your removal of spoilers on Psych (season 6) because Wikipedia does not censor spoilers. If you'd like to make a change, please discuss before further edits. Thanks. Kevinbrogers (talk) 14:31, 13 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

I remember a couple years ago there was a tag that said something like "This section contains spoilers" at the top of each section that might give plot details away (from what I can tell, it was on about 45,000 articles), but that's been gone for quite some time. I wasn't a part of the discussion to delete it, but I've linked to it here. It was decided based on community consensus to delete the "Spoiler" warning (I must warn you though, the discussion is about 36 pages long when copied to Microsoft Word). To sum up the discussion, it appears that most people felt that the overall general disclaimer linked at the bottom of every page was enough to warn people (I don't quite agree with their reasoning, because I've been on Wikipedia for quite awhile and hadn't ever really read it all the way through, but I sort of see what they mean). I hope this helped. Kevinbrogers (talk) 22:42, 13 April 2012 (UTC)Reply
Also... you may find this page helpful (it's significantly shorter). If you'd like to bring something up about spoiler warnings, that would be the place to do it. Kevinbrogers (talk) 22:44, 13 April 2012 (UTC)Reply